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r/LivingAlone

Solo Living: The New Normal. Living alone is the new normal. Discuss and share your experiences; celebrate your joys, express your worries, or ask advice relating to solo living | Remember, we are all alone together Founded 2012 · 258.4K members

261.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 19.5K upvotes, which works out to 75 per 1,000 members.

75peak upvotes per 1,000 members
261.3Kmembers
19.5Kbest post
2.3Kmost comments
415posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

37% 31% 18% 8%
Text 37% Image 31% Question 18% Gallery 8% Link 5% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

General Discussion 96 New to living alone 65 Support/Vent 47 Meme 😹 36 Celebration & Wins 🎉 33 Casual Question 🗨 21 Food & Cooking 🍳 20 Returning to solo living 14 A Day in the Life 🕰️ 13 Home & Apartment 🏠 12

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Living alone can get scary

↑ 19.5K 💬 772 gallery 2024

Birthday day, no friends, no family around so I stayed at home and treat myself with a pizza

↑ 14.8K 💬 1.3K image 2026

I decided that I never want to live with a man again

↑ 12.1K 💬 2.3K text 2026

Retired, Living Alone

↑ 12.1K 💬 685 gallery 2026

Today’s my birthday.My first one in my new apartment after 3 years of being homeless,depressed and heartbroken.It’s quiet and a little lonely but pea…

↑ 11.5K 💬 1.1K image 2025

Found a strange woman inside my house late at night

↑ 11.3K 💬 500 text 2026

I like living alone and make myself "luxury" meals

↑ 10.2K 💬 365 gallery 2025

It Happened. Guy Hiding by the Back Door Tonight.

↑ 9.5K 💬 336 image 2026

This would be me 😂

↑ 8.5K 💬 137 image 2026

After 8 years of roommates, I’m finally living alone — and I celebrated with champagne on my balcony.

↑ 8.4K 💬 331 gallery 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/LivingAlone, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/LivingAlone?
r/LivingAlone ("Solo Living: The New Normal") describes itself this way: Living alone is the new normal. Discuss and share your experiences; celebrate your joys, express your worries, or ask advice relating to solo living | Remember, we are all alone together. It was founded in 2012 and has 258.4K members.
How many members does r/LivingAlone have?
r/LivingAlone has about 261.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 415 of its posts; the biggest reached 19.5K upvotes, which is 75 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/LivingAlone?
"Living alone can get scary" reached 19.5K upvotes and 772 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/LivingAlone.
What subreddits are similar to r/LivingAlone?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/LivingAlone?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are text posts and 31% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/LivingAlone?
Across 415 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 03:00 UTC (6.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 00:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 22:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/LivingAlone?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/LivingAlone has 5.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 20 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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